Re: IMAP user name with '@' symbol

[Doug Johnson <djohnson@osc.edu>]

At Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:23:49 +0000,
Richard Lewis wrote:
> 
> At Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:23:22 -0500,
> Doug Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > At Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:08 +0000,
> > Richard Lewis wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi there,
> > > 
> > > I'm just trying to add my non-local IMAP servers to my wl setup (I
> > > currently use just local IMAP) and am playing the .folders file
> > > guessing game -- badly.
> > > 
> > > My username for one of my IMAP servers is my email address, including
> > > the '@' symbol. Any ideas if this works in wl? Currently I've got as
> > > far as specifying the username with '%40' instead of '@' and that gets
> > > me to the position of it reporting an authentication error.
> > > 
> > > With the @ included it thought that everything following it was the
> > > name of the server. With the @ escaped ('\@') it just asks me if I
> > > want to create the folder. (I'm not sure what this means, does it mean
> > > that it's not parsing the folder definition as an IMAP folder?)
> > > 
> > > Also, putting exclamation marks at the ends of my folder definitions
> > > seems to have the effect of causing them not to be parsed properly (I
> > > think, it's quite hard to tell what's wrong with a .folers file).
> > > 
> > > Anyone else solved this problem?
> > > -- 
> > 
> > Richard,
> > 
> > I have the '@' symbol in my username for one of my email accounts,
> > double quotes work.
> > 
> > 	(setq elmo-imap4-default-user "name@domain.com")
> > 
> OK. I don't really understand what this elmo-imap4-default-user
> variable is about. Why should I set it? What if I have four IMAP
> accounts? Why should any of them be my elmo-imap4-default-user? Why
> can't I just put the necessary folder definition in .folders?
> 
> I tried setting it and it didn't seem to make any difference. I tried
> unsetting it and it broke my Emacs completely!

The elmo-imap4-default-* variables can be set in the ~/.wl file so
that in .folders one does not have to set user or server values.
Sorry for the confusion.

A folder entry for a username with an '@' sign would look like the
following,

  %INBOX:"user@domain.com"/clear@domain.com:993!

Hope this helps.


Doug